It's a GIFT

"FASD is a gift"...a new thought that was just introduced to me.  It IS a GIFT.  It's a gift that pushes me to be a better person.  It's a GIFT that reminds me not to judge others. It's a GIFT that shows me my weaknesses at their worst and provides opportunity for me to overcome such weakness...and if I don't overcome it right away...I'm blessed with many other chances to try again.  The longer I live with a son with an FASD, the more I realize that it is me that needs to overcome.  He will be judged by God for only what he knows and understands and God knows what that is.  And I will be judged for how I treated God's special child.  I hope and pray that I will treat him the way God wants me to.
I love this quote by Elder Jeffery R. Holland: "I testify of the holy Resurrection, that unspeakable cornerstone gift in the Atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ! ^...I bear witness of that day when loved ones whom we knew to have disabilities in mortality will stand before us glorified and grand, breathtakingly perfect in body and mind. What a thrilling moment that will be! I do not know whether we will be happier for ourselves that we have witnessed such a miracle or happier for them that they are fully perfect and finally “free at last.” ¹² Until that hour when Christ’s consummate gift is evident to us all, may we live by faith, hold fast to hope, and show “compassion one of another,” ¹³ I pray, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen."